Value: Book Clubs as Advocacy

We believe that: The sharing and cultivation of knowledge and experience is advocacy, a form of activism, and moves towards social justice.  

The processes of setting goals, including the ramifications of fiction reading on empathy; selecting a title very specifically for its content and the discussions this content would raise; the intentional collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion; giving students priority and allowing them to include or not include faculty and staff out of respect for potential power dynamics:  All of these aspects are an attempt to create an experience that is mindful and intentional, and makes reading not a passive experience, but one of activism and advocacy.